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The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
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The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
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The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America.
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The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.
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The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.
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The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.
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The pressure is on the women to be particularly small, and then not only that, the whole package. It's extreme.
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
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The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
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The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
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The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
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The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.
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The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
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